No one does not want their skin to be watery and tender. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the skin to lose moisture because it has a powerful moisturizing system, which locks the moisture. But in autumn, most people’s skin suddenly becomes dry. Why is this? How can make skin tender again?
Why does the skin become [dry]?
1. The ambient air is too dry
In autumn, As the ambient temperature drops, The air becomes dry, sebum secretion is greatly reduced, and the formation of sebum membrane will be affected, making its moisturizing, moisturizing and protecting functions obviously decline. In addition, for office workers sitting under the air conditioner every day, the air humidity is insufficient, and there is no sufficient moisture intake, so the skin is more likely to be short of water and dry.
Step 2 Excessive Cleaning
Many people wash their faces, bathe and apply hot compresses too often because their skin is dry, so as to restore the skin to tender water. However, this will damage the [protective barrier] on the skin surface and lead to drier skin.
3. Improper skin care
Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to skin care, but they often do more harm than good because they use the wrong skin care products. We divide skin into dry, neutral, oily and sensitive types, and everyone should choose different skin care products according to different types of skin.
Step 4: Lack of sleep
Lack of sleep will not only affect one’s health, but also affect the skin state, resulting in skin inactivity, dryness, roughness, darkness and other problems.
5. Age
With the increase of age, the aging of skin is irreversible, sebum secreted by skin will be greatly reduced, and the moisturizing effect and barrier function of skin will also be weakened.
6. Certain diseases
Some diseases can also cause skin dryness, such as diabetes or kidney diseases.
Want to restore water tenderness? Teach you a few tricks
Among the 6 points mentioned above, dry skin caused by age and disease factors is more difficult to solve, but:
Maintain (indoor) environmental humidity;
Not excessively clean;
Correct skin care;
Ensure adequate sleep time;
These aspects are within our control. If it is really hard to resist the clutches of autumn dryness, there is another big move: Bao! Wet!
At the end of the day, to keep your skin dry, you must start with protecting the skin barrier. The simplest way is to apply moisturizer. After washing your face, immediately apply milk (or thick cream, depending on your skin quality and season) to establish a moisturizing barrier for your skin and reduce the loss of water from the stratum corneum.
The following three kinds of humectants, friends can take out a small notebook to write down. When buying lotion and cream, see if there are them in the ingredient list.
1. Glycerol
Glycerol is the first type of humectant used. High concentration of glycerol has strong hygroscopicity, which can not only absorb water from the air, but also absorb water from the dermis, thus causing skin dryness and even burns. Therefore, the concentration of glycerol used as humectant is 5% ~ 20% more appropriate.
2. Hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid can make skin soft and elastic, promote skin metabolism, has anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic effects and promote skin repair, and has the unique properties of high moisture absorption at low relative humidity and low moisture absorption at high relative humidity.
3. Ceramide
Ceramide has the protective effects of repairing skin barrier and preventing water loss, as well as anti-aging and anti-infection effects. Like hyaluronic acid, ceramide also has the superior moisture retention of high moisture absorption at low relative humidity and low moisture absorption at high relative humidity.
As for skin problems, if your skin is simply dry, congratulations, as long as you do a good job of moisturizing, it can basically be solved.
There are also some people who have a headache. In addition to dry skin, they also encounter other skin problems: acne is not good again and again, and how can cure it? Cheeks are easy to flush, is how to return a responsibility? What do you want to do? Recurrent attacks of eczema, has what method to solve? … …
These situations cannot be solved simply by moisturizing. If you misuse skin care products or folk remedies, it may be more serious. If you want to get the right treatment, you must consult a professional dermatologist as early as possible.